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Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. March 13 reported results from an "exceptional" 2017 and said it is looking forward to finalizing the permitting for Back River and completing pre-development work at the gold mine project in Nunavut. In December, the Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada accepted a recommendation by the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) to advance Back River gold to the regulatory and licensing phases. "2017 was an exceptional year for Sabina," said...
Margaret Lake Diamonds Inc. March 12 said it is putting together plans for potential 2018 drill programs at its Margaret Lake and Diagras diamond properties in the Northwest Territories. The company said it has identified six drill targets at Margaret Lake, a 23,199-hectare property adjacent to the north and west of Kennady Diamonds Inc.'s Kennady North property and about nine kilometers (5.5 miles) north of Gahcho Kué, a diamond mine recently brought into production under a joint venture between De Beers Canada and...
Coeur Mining Inc. March 8 announced that it has completed commissioning of the mill at Silvertip and begun production at the high-grade silver mine in northern British Columbia. "The achievement of this important milestone at Silvertip builds upon the strong momentum with which we have started 2018," said Coeur President and CEO Mitchell Krebs. "Ramp-up of milling rates and production is planned to continue under temporary permit coverage through year-end. Ramp-up of...
Alexco Resource Corp. April 14 provided an update on its progress towards the resumption of mining the high-grade deposits at its Keno Hill Silver District project in the Yukon. Alexco began commercial production at Keno Hill early in 2011 but suspended operations in 2013 due to the weakness in silver prices. Since shutting down production, the Vancouver, B.C.-based company has continued exploration of the high-grade silver deposits on its property, which blankets a district...
TerraX Minerals Inc. March 9 said its first phase of 2018 drilling at the Yellowknife City Gold project is showing the potential for a bulk tonnage deposit on the Northbelt property with multi-gram-per-metric-ton gold grades. The first five holes of its 2018 winter drill program tested the Sam Otto zone both along strike and to depth. Two of these holes tested the Sam Otto South extension, confirming a 2,200-meter mineralized zone that remains open. These holes were drilled...
Tudor Gold Corp. said it has identified a new high-priority exploration target at Treaty Creek that appears to be related to the Iron Cap Deep discovery on Seabridge Gold Inc.'s KSM property in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. A 13,722-meter drill program carried out at Treaty Creek last year defined a 1,000-meter long zone of gold-enriched porphyry mineralization at its Copper Belle target. The best hole of the program cut 149.1 meters grading...
For the fourth year running, Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nevada, has put forward the legislation aimed at streamlining the process for permitting strategic and critical minerals in the United States. "Critical and strategic minerals are essential to the technologies that make our daily lives and economy work. Unfortunately, when it comes to mining strategic and critical minerals domestically, duplicative regulations, bureaucratic inefficiency, and lack of coordination between federal...
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. March 14 announced that it has raised US$12 million to continue the optimization and environmental baseline studies for its Livengood gold project in Interior Alaska, and for general working capital purposes. "I am pleased to continue the technical work that can potentially improve and certainly will serve to de-risk the Livengood gold project," said Tower Hill CEO Karl Hanneman. "ITH has unique and positive fundamentals, given our land stat...
